Monday, June 12, 2006
Signs for the Workshop
posted by Carl Bryant @ 7:57 PM
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Read one too many of the same time and place and crafted characters? Oh why can't someone new come add an unexpected run on sentence in the middle of a tout about ladybugs and all their interesting crawlings over wonder plants and wiggly fingers? Why can't that happen a little more often?
Oh well, back to makin' signs .......
-blue
My favorite workshop sentiment, in not-a-poem form:
This is not a Poem
This is not a poem - not
another word-knot, not
a Rorschach inkblot that blurs
from nothing into who-knows-what.
This contains no clever thought.
This is not a poem.
I have two cats. What about a poem about TWO cats? That's gotta be good, yes? Heh.
Two cats? What an intriguing idea for a poem! It's like TWO cat poems in one! Yaay.
haha, this is a riot.
i write a lot about cats. i don't have them. will i be hunted down? is this the subconciousness reason i never write about my three german shepherds? a sort of secret weapon in case of cat-poetry killers? hmmmm.
a.
You write poems about your cat and you don't even own a cat?
That's the weirdest (and meanest) thing I've ever heard, Arlene. You rock.
I have a poem about murder and I've never murdered anyone, is that weird too?
-blue
perhaps i could write a poem about carl not writing poems about the cats he does not have. some challenge.
reminds me of a passage in flaubert's parrot by julian barnes which i read yesterday, what the narrator would do if he were a dictator who could ban certain kinds of novels etc: "There shall be no more novels about incest. No, not even ones in very bad taste."
Blue - that's more scary than weird. But that's okay. Don't get angry.
Michi - I've workshopped one cat poem (that I can remember) about a year ago. I think it was about eating Guy Kettelhack's cat. It wasn't very good.
I love British crit-wit. Thanks for the quote - it had me laughing.
teehee... eating who's cat, carl? and it wasn't very good? i think i know what you'll say next: "tastes like chicken."
i wrote three poems, maybe four, about schrodinger's cat and what it had for lunch. i made myself stop because it didn't seem healthy anymore.
haha! love the quote. i'm getting that book, michi!
a.